"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1892, 19 January 1885, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

London, January A Frenql) expedition is intended to be shortly despatched to Pakin.

' .January 8. Gladstone's eldest son, tlye'mem; ber for East Woccestersliire, in addreaaiiia • ft meeting at Hawarden yesterday said that his father would shortly retire from ■; ■ ' ' ■ Thsgpitjah OdvernmantHaveforviranaed • a very indignant protest to the German authoritieson.the annoxationquestion, whicK Bismarck -i? acciisd gf breach of . faith, in- having directed ftp "• (ifmexatlmvof a portion of' New GMw, The Foreign office has despatched the " Hon Robert Mead, one assistant to the Under-Secrotaiy'a Colonial- Office, Berlin, to make arrangements for the meeting of .Convention to adjudicate upon the rival claims in the'islands of the Pacific."-' 'The attitude of New South Wales at the present juncture is most perplexing,. The Colonial Office and Agent-General are confident that Germany will, in the end. )>*m be compelled to abandon Nefr Guinea*?'' Prinoe Bismarok declines to define limit?* to German annexation in New Guinea and the Pacific until ho'haa revived plrtlcu. lars'and reports from the commander of ■. the _ German warship at present Jn the Pacific. General satisfaction is expressed at the de:ermination the British. Gdvernment has expressed to form a BriiM Pro- ! tectorate on the North-East Coast of New v ' v Guinea to Houn Gulf at. the commencement of the German boijriif&iy".'; ... „ In the German annexation for Geriiah^c^ : jjdmetQonß . the West Ooast of Africa.tby saci}tigal,' : Bismarck mado a speech", in Jfhigh ha threatened to abandon his' cotonising ■" policy If the question was postponed. The project in New Guinea shewed,the:dangey of delay and Englishmen were reported to be fomenting disorders.ln New .Giilnoa , and Cameroons,

January J2, Bismarck has expressed an opinion that ' if the Imperial Government approves' of A the hostility shown by the' Australian. colonies to the annexation of a portion of • ■ * New Guinea by Germany, .it will be lieces- ■ aary for Germany to support the policy d' the Powers opposed to England.'on thafltatr Egyptian and other questions. He also expressed- his surprise at the proposal " • • of -New Zealand to break the mutual ■ agstant info no£ tjii \